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NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF ROCHESTER Vol. 79 No. 48 i 4 p a g es 100th ANNIVERSARY ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE 01 ROCHESTER Rochester, New York Price: 15tf Friday, August 30, 1968 Dioce san Appointments Special Appointments Rev. Lawrence Murphy, from King's Prep, Rochester, to be spiritual director of Becket Hall. Rev. William Trott, from St. Margaret Mary's Church, to be spiritual director at St. Bernard's Seminary. fe> <*• Pope Outlines Latin American Program Msgr. Burns Retires From Teaching Career Monslgnor Francis B. Burns, or- dained only six years, was appointed Professor of Theology on the faculty of St Bernard's Seminary in August 1928. Tills week he announced his retirement from teaching after 40 consecutive years of instructing fu- ture priests for the Rochester Diocese and a dozen other dioceses of the East. Fundamental Moral theology was the major course Msgr. Burns offered to seminarians during years of his •,'sVr; '?''. MSGR. BURNS long tenure. At various times he was also professor of sociology, pastoral theology, liturgy and ethics. He was also assistant Prefect of Discipline for several years. Plans to taper off his teaching role did not include separation from the seminary, he said. \I will keep my rooms here in St Bernard's and will be available for elective courses.\ Msgr. Burns was born Nov. 19, 1894 in Rochester. He attended St. Patrick Cathedral parish school, St. Andrew's and St. Bernard's semina- ries and was ordained June 10, 1922. Following ordination he was assist- ant pastor at St. Mary's Church, El- mira, and St Mary's in Auburn before joining the St. Bernard's faculty in 1928. He did graduate work at the New York School of Social Work and the University of Chicago besides winning a licentiate degree in theology from St. Bernard's. He served as rector of Star of the Sea Chapel at Grand View Beach from 1957 to 1984. Because of his Interest in sociology, Msgr. Burns has been a long-time friend and director of Holy Angels Home, the Rochester Society for Pre- vention of Cruelty to Children and the Al Sigl Day Care Center for Handicapped Children. As consultant and board member for these groups for nearly 35 years he has been widely esteemed in Rochester as an inspirational force in their programs. Last May, honored for \devotion and dedication\ after 17 years of service on the board of the Day Care Center, Msgr. Burns was hailed as \a blessed man with special affection for children.\ Pope Pius XII granted him the rank of Right Reverend Monsignor in 195S. Bogota—(RNS)—Pope Paul VI, ad- dressing the opening session of the Second General Assembly of the Latin American Bishops' Council (CELAM) a few hours before the end of his visit here, outlined a threefold program* of liturgical, pastoral and social renewal which he*said was es- sential for the vast, problem-ridden continent. _. In the major of 10 addresses he made in Bogota, the Pope: • Once again rejected revolution- ary violence as a solution to social problems. • Defended his recent encyclical on birth control. • Warned the bishops to resist \ir- regular and undisciplined\ statements by the clergy. • Warned the Latin American hier- archy not to become identified with oppressive governments. • Called for the elimination of \re- ligious illiteracy\ through liturgical and pastoral reform. • Stressed the need for close col- laboration and friendly, brotherly communication between the bishops and their priests. His address was given to 180 Bish- ops, assembled In the Bogota cathe- dral from all parts of Latin America, on the final day of his visit here. Earlier he had offered Mass in a working class parish, St Cecilia's, and on his way to the El Dorado airport Jwjmarip a final visit to the grounds Pope Blesses Newlyweds v w Pope Paul smiles greetings as he blesses some of the 30 couples wed in services at the Eucharistic Congress held in Bogota, Co- lombia. The pontiff's three-day visit was the first time a Pope had traveled to La!5n Ame 1ca. (RNS Photo) Sect Leaving Doomed' California Atlanta—(ENS) — Members of the First Apostolic Church of Bell Gar- dens, Calif., are moving to Atlanta be- cause, as one member who arrived here said, God is going to cause the Golden State \to fall off in the water.\ The first group of 100 have leased a small former Baptist church build- ing, and prepared for the arrival of another 100. They have named their movement in Atlanta the Bible Apos- tolic Church. John Estes explained that members sold their honnes, quit their jobs and moved because of the prophetic lead- ership of the Rev. Donald Abernathy. 'This is the reason we do what we do,\ Mr. Estes said. \We've seen God work through him (Mr. Abernathy) many times. He predicted the Watts riot and the Arab-Israeli war.\ It was in July, Estes continued, that the minister told the group it must flee to Atlanta. Estes said he did not know the day or month when catas- trophe would fall upon California but it \would probably be before 1970.\ of the Eucharistic Congress where he blessed 25 newlywed .couples. \The future calls for in effort, a daring, a sacrifice which Introduce a deep anxiety Into the Church,\ the Pope said In his address to the Bish- ops. He cited \the restlessness char- acteristic of our tune, and particular- ly In these countries straining toward their complete development and trou- bled by the awareness of their eco- nomic, social, political and moral disequilibrium.\ The Pope denounced efforts to \ 'secularize' Christianity\ and empha- sized that love of neighbor depends on love of God. He also criticized ef- forts to distinguish between the \in- stituttonal\ and the \charismatic Church.\ In recommending social reform, the Pope said that the Church \must favor every honest effort to promote the restoration and the raising up of the poor and of all who live In condi- tions of human and social Inferior- ity.\ \We cannot be linked with systems and structures which cover up and favor oppressive Inequalities among the classes without carrying out an effective plan to remedy the unbear- able conditions of inferiority which less prosperous people often suffer,\ he continued. ,, * •'\ • >*\ \ Vatican; sounces have ma'de it clear that the Pope- did not came to Latin America to serve as a referee be- tween progressives and conservatives. These sourccss explain that the Pope saw his role as a diplomatic one and sought to inspire a spirit of modera- tion which would not be misunder- preted as a reluctance to act. The Pope'ss speeches In Bogota leave no douTit that he Is aware of the realities of Latin American life and will not settle for the payment of mere lip service to the Immense problems of aunderdevelopment. The social action thrust of the Pope's words could clearly be felt as he addressed tihe \campesinos\ (rural farm workers!) In the nearby town of San Jose dc Mosquera. The Vatican estimated tha=t some 30XMW0 campe- sinos came to an open field in San Jose to hear t&o words of the Pope. \Allow us finally to exhort you not to place youar trust In violence and revolution. TTht is contrary to the Christian splr-it, and It can also delny Instead of advancing that social up- lifting to whUch you lawfully aspire. \Sec to It -rather that you support the undertakings lai favor of your edu- cation. Seek to find means of mod- ernizing the methods of your agricul- tural work. '\. . . Not Ira hate, not in violence Is the strength of our charity* Among the different ways toward adjust re- generatlon of society, we cannot choose that oaf atbeistlc Marxism, nor that of sysle-matlc revolt, nor much less that of lalood and anarchy. Vaticam Establishes Special Baptism Rite Vatican Ctty—<NC)—Acting on a mandate of t»c Second Vatican Coun- cil, the Holy See baa created a special rite for tho. lnmUsm of Infants. The new «jromony, published by the Consilium for tho Implementation of the Council's Clturgy Constitution, consists of (o»ur principal parts: a wel- come to the child by tho Christian community, a celebration of the word of God conferral of the sacrament itself, and a procession with a final blessing. The rite is elastic, allowing dis- cretionary p«ewors to the local hier- archy and -making room for local customs. Czech Churches Face Bleak Future B>r JOSEPH McLELLAN Yew a?ork— (BINS) -r-The invasion of Czechoslovakia by Russia and four o flier allies, with the propping up of a gun-supported puppet government, raises serious doubts about the future of religion mere. Symbolically, perhaps, one of the first reports out of Czechoslovakia after tibe 200,000 foreign troops ON THE INSIDE Around the Country 4 Around the World 5 Commentary 13 Diocesan 7 Editorial « Entertainment 10 Interracial 4 Pat Answers 7 IF YOU MOVE . . . let us know about it so we can keep your Courier coming to you on time. Phone or mail us notice of'your change of ad- dress. Include your old address and new address and the name of your parish. Courier-Journal, 35 Scio St., Rochester, N.Y. 14604. Phone 71M5-4-705O. swarmed into the country stated that the headquarters of the People's party was in flames. This party had been transformed rapidly when the liberalization intro- duced by Communist leader Alexan- der Dubcek began to take effect. Its leadership was changed almost over- night and its largely Roman Catholic membership began evolving in the direction of Western Europe's main- stream Christian Democratic parties. Also sent up in flames, apparently, were the hopes of millions of Czechs and. Slovaks who have clung to their Catholic, Protestant Orthodox or Jewish faiths through nearly two decades of Communist rule, allowing it to come out again in the brief springtime promise of the Dubcek regime. Practical problems for the churches have been multiplied, without a doubt, by their brief emergence from the protective obscurity they had de- veloped during the long years of Stalinist rule. For six months, reli- gious leaders had been cementing new relations with a new govern- ment, offering suggestions or even demands for an Improved religious situation. Some of these had already been Implemented; others had re- ceived an encouraging reception. Now, suddenly, the situation has been totally reversed. In review, what •had been accomplished in six months was amazing, making the prospect of —at best—a return to the old situa- tion all the more painful. • Bishops imprisoned or deposed by the old regime had returned to their dioceses, some after working for years as-manual laborers. • Czechoslovakian Jewish leaders re-established firm contacts with their counterparts in other countries for the first time in two decades. They also petitioned the government for the elimination of anti-Semitism, which had been a serious problem in the worst years of Stalinism, and for permission to educate their chil- dren in their religion. Observers have repeatedly de- nounced continuing anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, whose policies are apt to be very closely followed by the new Czechoslavakian government. • Lutheran leaders issued a state- ment denouncing abuses under the former regime and outlining needed reforms. These reforms included a constitutional guarantee of freedom of conscience, the end of interference in Church aifairs by government of- ficials, freedom of press and instruc- tion and the rehabilitation of church- men unjustly imprisoned in the past. Baptists and Congregationalisms made similar calls for increased freedom. r Inspired by the Dubcek reforms, these suggestions are not apt to re- ceive positive attention under a new government Barely begun, though approved in principle, was the rehabilitation of some 1,500 priests who had been forced to take other forms of em- ployment trie restoration of brutally suppressed religious orders, the re- opening of seminaries which had been forcibly closed and for which, sud- denly, there were hundreds of appli- cants. Two Catholic bishops were still ex- iled from Czechoslovakia when the tanks began, to roll across the bor- ders Joseph Cardinal Beran, 79, the nation's primate, and Bishop Paul Hnilica, 47, who was secretly conse- crated in 1964 and forced to flee when his consecration became known to the governmnet Their statu.?, Catholic-Orthodox re- lations, the filling of sees which have mous, complex work of rchabi tat- mous, complex work off rehabilitat- ing seminaries and religious orders were expected to be the subject of negotiations between Czchoslovakia and the Vatican. The negotiations had been sched- uled for October. When, if ever, will they take place, now that the steel trap has be«n sprung on Czechoslo- vakia? It is still too early for total pessi- mism on all possibilities of Church- state reform i n Czechoslovakia though it seems safe to predict that no Russian • installed government could offer anywhere near the hope inspired by Dubcek. **t*\. The Two Faces of Soviet Relations TOP: €zech Communist Party chief Alexander Dub- BOTTOM: Less than three wc«ks after the display cek with Russian Premier Alcxi Kosygin (center) of Communist friendship, a Soaviet tank which had and U.S.S.R. Communist Party General Secretary invaded the Czech nation burms in the streets of Leonid Brezhnev (right) are all smiles as they ar- Prague while citizens display thciT resentment of rive in Bratislava for friendship talks on August 2. of the Russian invasion. (CItS Photos)
